I apologize to everyone, I forgot to pre-emptively add "and imply, with very stern looks and concerned sips from their Naked Juice bottles, that anyone who doesn't agree with the panic is complicit in one of many food industry conspiracies."

I apologize to everyone, I forgot to pre-emptively add "and imply, with very stern looks and concerned sips from their Naked Juice bottles, that anyone who doesn't agree with the panic is complicit in one of many food industry conspiracies."

Both my fiance and I have had food-borne illnesses within one week of each other (I got dysentery--yes, I thought of Oregon Trail too--and he got generic food poisoning, the day before Thanksgiving). We're both doing our best to avoid eating out altogether, but I have a monster-in-law who is extremely territorial about her kitchen (she's a hard-left conspiracy theorist who has separate sponges for the sink versus dishes) and thinks I'm a horrible meat-eater who can't possibly know how to use a pot to boil water. In spite of the fact that it's my pot.

Why we think it's a good idea to pay the least to those who handle our food is beyond me. Now, whenever people around me say "I don't understand why these knuckleheads can't do their jobs," my Weeners is, "Are you paying them enough to care?"

I apologize to everyone, I forgot to pre-emptively add "and imply, with very stern looks and concerned sips from their Naked Juice bottles, that anyone who doesn't agree with the panic is complicit in one of many food industry conspiracies."

This is OLD news. I first heard this in a book called Eating Animals by Foer. You people should really learn more about where your food comes from. You are what you eat and what we do to factory animals is not something that you should be eating, IMHO.

I'm ok with this, and everyone with at least an 8th grade education in statistical mathematics should be too.

/it's like the "40% of sick days are taken on Mondays and Fridays" statistic//OMG YOU ARE ALL SUCH HORRIBLE GREEDY PEOPLE... wait, I eat a whole farking ton of food every year, just like everyone else that isn't starving?

dj1s:This is OLD news. I first heard this in a book called Eating Animals by Foer. You people should really learn more about where your food comes from. You are what you eat and what we do to factory animals is not something that you should be eating, IMHO.

the people have given up control of their foods to big business. people are failing to realize that the goal is to make a profit not to feed them healthy food. antibiotics are being used because conditions at the holding pens are so deplorable that the herds would be infected or die.

Mmmm. This is where most of the meat I eat comes from. Joining a CSA has a lot of benefits. It's convenient (we always have something to make in our freezer), and the price is pretty much the same that I'd pay at the local grocery store but it's better quality (around $50 a month, which feeds 2 of us). I meet the farmers every week at pick up time and they really care about what they do. If you have a CSA near you, I recommend checking it out. Don't get me wrong, I love all kinds of food - organic, healthy, or not - but we wanted to try this and ended up loving it.

Really, at that rate of consumption, it's not meat anymore, not meat ever again. I wonder if it decomposes?

Oh and it's not diseased until the cattle hit the feed lot and start eating corn. Cattle are meant to eat grasses not corn. When they're fed corn for 120 days they'll die if they aren't fed antibiotics. Can't say much about chicken - just don't know. Well other than it's "hurry up and die" from a producers stand point

Some of you fine folks have to watch some muck raker documentaries to really understand it. I say this because I can't be sure if there's a lot of innocents and republicans or just folks lacking a bit of insight.

As much as I rail about Netflix, they have a great library of titles on the crap in the grocery store that passes for food.

What MAY happen eventually is as the rest of the world bans the use of ALL OF THIS STUFF they might decide that their borders are closed to US citizens because we're dangerous, disease carrying, ignocrats.

Reverend Monkeypants:What MAY happen eventually is as the rest of the world bans the use of ALL OF THIS STUFF they might decide that their borders are closed to US citizens because we're dangerous, disease carrying, ignocrats.

The possibilities are endless!

The funny thing is that, every time the rest of the world has tried to do that in the past, they've always turned their own countries into dangerous diseased idiocracies, while America has simply kept on being an awesome shining beacon of liberty, health, and reason amid the gathering darkness.

/i'm sure it will be totes diff this time tho//after all, Ghandi said the definition of insanity is doing the same thing and expecting the same result every time///you don't want a great leader like Ghandi to think you're crazy, do you?

Tatterdemalian:The funny thing is that, every time the rest of the world has tried to do that in the past, they've always turned their own countries into dangerous diseased idiocracies, while America has simply kept on being an awesome shining beacon of liberty, health, and reason amid the gathering darkness.

The reasons are likely totally unrelated to this, but Americans have some of the worst health stats in the civilized world.